Are secure passwords really that important?
Keeping your password secure We are constantly being told to make our passwords “secure” to stop someone hacking into our information. But do they really need to be? Making your password secure often means it requires a long and complicated combination of letters, numbers, upper and lower case and ideally a special character or two. […]
Ransomware Prevention is Better than Cure
Ransomware the threat to your business Picture this: You’ve spent the last few weeks working on a big proposal to land a new client. You’ve spend painstaking hours collecting information and putting it together, designing your PowerPoint presentation and hand outs. Thousands of pounds in man hours has gone into this job. When you finally […]
Microsoft Midmarket Solution Provider
Microsoft Solution Provider Congratulations to the First Stop IT team for their latest achievement in their Microsoft Partnership. This demonstrates expertise in building critical infrastructure solutions based on Microsoft desktop, business-management, and server technologies that can expand on midmarket customers’ current system foundations. Put simply our team had to pass technical and product knowledge exams […]
Watch out for ransomware masquerading as Windows 10!
Ransomware in Windows 10 We all know that the scammers will try anything to get their hands on your money or your data! We also know that people as a rule are impatient, and with Windows 10 being released last week it was only a matter of time before someone tried to cash in. Enter […]
It’s finally here and these are our thoughts on Windows 10
What is new and should I install it? If you have been following the story of Windows 10 you will know that it is available as a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. You may also know about all of its new features. These features look great, they look like Microsoft […]
Apple’s new features and iOS 9
Every year Apple hold a conference called the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to showcase all the upcoming developments they have for their mobile system (iOS) and their desktop system (OSX). This year included the announcement of iOS 9 and some great new features coming soon to iOS, which are: New Multitasking Features iOS 9 brings […]
Chrome for Android’s Time-Saving Search Trick
Want to define a big word without opening a new tab? Want more news about something you’re currently reading on your phone? Chrome for Android now lets you search Google just by highlighting some text without losing your place. Desktop browsers like Chrome and Firefox have had this feature for awhile: just select some text, […]
IT Security Easy Wins
In the recent world of business IT, no subject been in the spotlight more than IT security. Hardly a week goes by without a report on an exploit, bug, hack, or breach being reported. Such reports range from factual representations of the event, through technical descriptions unfathomable to most business owners, to outright scaremongering articles […]
The Anatomy of Good Business IT
The anatomy of good Business IT Every business is different, and can utilise IT systems in different ways in order to make themselves more profitable; from simple email communication & file storage, to complicated accounting, design, or manufacturing systems. However we believe that there are things that every business should have in place as a […]
Keep Google Chrome under control
Since it’s entry into the world of internet browsers in 2008 Google Chrome has become more popular with each year that passes and now approximately 63% of people browsing the web are using it. However, this doesn’t mean that Google’s browser is perfect, and one flaw it has is that it uses a lot of […]